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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These are hilarious, but I don't think I'd survive in a country where the national sport is trolling.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

They call it banter rather than trolling, but yes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My family is like this. All we do is make fun of each other. It's kept mostly internal (including close family friends) but that's how we show love.

I still dress like a ranch hand about a quarter of the time even though I'm only out there to lend a hand once in a while. I showed up at my parent's place while my siblings were in town while I was wearing my boots and a pearl snap shirt. In our group chat my dad still asks "Hey Cowboy, did ya yee any haws today?" and that's been over a year.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My family is like this. All we do is make fun of each other. It’s kept mostly internal (including close family friends) but that’s how we show love.

Oof, my mom is like this. My entire childhood was: bullying at school, bullying on the playground, then coming home to mom making jokes at my expense while telling me to "learn to laugh at myself" when I got upset because her words sounded exactly like what bullies would say.

It's one thing to poke fun at friends and peers who share your humor, but I hope adults recognize that kids are still developing their senses of self, and stuff like this can fuck them (and their relationships with their parents) up for life.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The spaceship one was brutal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At the same time, that's one of the easiest ones to throw a funny response back

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Played well, this could be a free pass for all the other times the person is late.

Next time they are late they can put on the silver jacket, enter the classroom with a space related excuse:

  • Sorry, the traffic was awful on the asteroid belt
  • My comet was delayed
  • A gravitational anomaly threw me out of the solar system, it took me forever to come back
  • ....
[–] ICastFist 6 points 1 week ago

I'd be laughing too hard to even think of a comeback

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

This sounds like a magical place.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

This kinda makes me want to go live in Ireland lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

We call this "cutting tall poppies" in Australia.

I've always appreciated this story as an explanation for anyone who finds the concept foreign.

https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/editors_pick/1969_12_pick.html

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Tall poppies is about criticising people who are boastful and self-aggrandising, not mocking people for wearing clothes they like.

(Your link doesn't load for me so I don't know if it directly contradicts me, my statement is based on my local understanding with confirmation from Wikipedia)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I think it could be argued that wearing ostentatious and expensive clothes is a type of self-aggrandisement. Wear something flashy into any local pub in country NSW and you'd get the exact same reaction as above.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

"The nail that sticks out the most get's hammered first"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Sounds about right. If there is one thing that'll get you taken the piss out of, it's trying to think you're special. Dear gods you can't live in Ireland without a thick skin or a sense of banter. I do miss it dearly.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s nice to hear some witty and lighthearted ones because we do have a problem with that kind of thing straying into the territory of abuse and bullying.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The line between banter and bullying can be pretty simple: does the target find it funny, and can you take back what you dish out?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you never know how the targez takes it, so there is a risk. Personal I think a bit of banter is good for the mood, but you have to make it 1000% clear that you are making light hearted fun. Which isn't always easy.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These are great, I want more. The communion card was especially brutal.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Turns out Derry Girls was an accurate portrayal of the Irish.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As an irish person (as in, born, raised and currently live in ireland), it is.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a shame Americans think they're Irish and you have to clarify yourself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

To be fair, Apple is an American company but HQ'd in Ireland. It's easy to get confused.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

i dont get the chilli one

edit: thanks everyone for explaining! not sure how i couldnt get chili con carne 😂

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

It's a pun for chili con carne.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chili con Carne is a way I've heard in 'tex-mex' (Texas mexican American cuisine) that's essentially Spanish for 'Chili, with meat'

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am a mexican, I speak spanish, and was completely unable to get the joke smh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Don't shake your head, tex-mex has nothing to do with Mexican food.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The dad's name is Con Kearney which is similar to 'con Carne', as in 'Chili con Carne'. I guess that dish is popular over there?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's like the one Mexican dish we know in Europe. You can order nachos or tacos at some places but they're so far removed from the real deal it's a crime to call it Mexican.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can someone explain the nike jacket one at the end?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

Vintage = old

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

OK these are amazing. I lol'd more than once!

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